[Huck]

But I was essentially asking you if they were lying, which is sort of a yes or no answer there.

Idiotic question. Of all people, a military person isn't going to answer that, because he is trained to report facts and not speculation. And since you can't know what's inside the head of the commissioners, you can only fairly say where their information was incorrect, and leave it to someone else to determine why/how they got it wrong.

[ovrtaxt]

Well. I'm a civilian.

I'll say it! They were lying.